Tag: El Salvador

Three Haitian families thankful Michael Oliphant turned 2020 obstacles into opportunities

Three Haitian families thankful Michael Oliphant turned 2020 obstacles into opportunities

(Photo: Michael Oliphant during a 2017 Fuller Center Global Builders trip to Pignon, Haiti.) Three Haitian families thankful Michael Oliphant turned 2020 obstacles into opportunities Michael Oliphant of Hayesville, N.C., spent a week this past January with a team of Fuller Center Global Builders volunteers in El Salvador laying the groundwork for a new 34-home […]

Volunteers praise build experience, thriving Fuller Center communities in El Salvador

Volunteers praise build experience, thriving Fuller Center communities in El Salvador

Volunteers praise build experience, thriving Fuller Center communities in El Salvador The Fuller Center for Housing’s work in El Salvador has taken off in recent years thanks to an influx of financial support from Fuller donors and outstanding local leadership from our partners at Gente Ayudando Gente (People Helping People) — notably its determined leader, […]

55-home community dedicated in Ahuachapán, El Salvador; many more to come

55-home community dedicated in Ahuachapán, El Salvador; many more to come

Thanks to Fuller Center supporters including New Story Charity, outstanding local leadership from Gente Ayudando Gente (People Helping People), local government cooperation and excellent work by local laborers and partner families, a community of 55 new Fuller Center homes have been dedicated in the community of Ahuachapán, El Salvador. This new 55-home community is less […]

VIDEO UPDATE: Fuller Center communities are thriving and growing in El Salvador

VIDEO UPDATE: Fuller Center communities are thriving and growing in El Salvador

Thanks to Fuller Center for Housing supporters — including New Story Charity — three communities of beautiful new Fuller Center homes have transformed the lives of more than 200 families in the past three years. Children who were growing up in shacks far from clean water and sanitation are now joyously playing with their neighbors […]

David Snell’s “The Tattered Passport” now available in E-book format

David Snell’s “The Tattered Passport” now available in E-book format

In September of 2018, Fuller Center for Housing President David Snell released “The Tattered Passport” in paperback through Amazon. With a cover price of $15, proceeds of the book go to The Fuller Center’s work of helping people have simple, decent places to live. Today, “The Tattered Passport” was made available in a electronic format […]

David Snell honored with Servant’s Heart Award by People Helping People Network

David Snell honored with Servant’s Heart Award by People Helping People Network

It may look like Fuller Center for Housing President David Snell walked away with an Oscar from Sunday night’s Academy Awards, but he actually now holds an award much more meaningful to him and those who care about helping people have simple, decent places to live through the affordable housing ministry he leads. President Snell […]

President’s New Year’s message: Show love and be an agent of change in 2017

President’s New Year’s message: Show love and be an agent of change in 2017

Another year is moving into the history books, and what a year it has been!  It seems as though we had an extra dose of challenges to deal with over the past 12 months and the news was full of tragedy and sadness.  But we survived!  And in the midst of all the heartache and […]

As one El Salvadoran community nears completion, Ahuachapán families eager for same hand-up

As one El Salvadoran community nears completion, Ahuachapán families eager for same hand-up

About this time last year, The Fuller Center for Housing’s building partner on the ground in El Salvador — People Helping People (Gente Ayudando Gente) — was just beginning to get to know the families of Nuevo Cuscatlán who were living in pitiful shacks resting precariously on muddy hillside. They were being selected to partner […]